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Fourth District Holds Addendum To 2010 Program EIR For Irvine Business Complex Vision Plan Violated CEQA Because Conclusion That Large Infill Project’s GHG Emissions Would Be Less Than Significant Lacked Substantial Evidence And Project Was Not Exempt

CEQA Developments

3) affirmed a judgment setting aside an addendum to a 2010 program EIR (PEIR) and accompanying approvals for a 275,000-square foot office complex on a 4.95-acre and (2) did substantial evidence show the project’s GHG emissions are within the scope of the 2010 PEIR? IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million cut from the DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2010-11 budget; -- $180 million diverted from the DCNR Oil and Gas Fund to General Fund in proposed FY 2010-11 budget; -- $5.5 million cut continued from the FY 2010-11 DEP and DCNR General Fund budget in FY 2011-12 budget; -- $8.3 million from DEP, $1.5

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A deep dive into the IPCC’s updated carbon budget numbers

Real Climate

Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). Source: Data from IPCC (2014), Rogelj et al (2018), and IPCC (2021). from Rogelj et al (2018) – note how the red dot marked 2010 moves to the purple dot marked 2010, once historical modelling uncertainties are corrected for. Source: Figure 2.3

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Electric Vehicle Sales in US Hit the Accelerator Pedal

Union of Concerned Scientists

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. million since 2010), other states across the US are also seeing accelerating sales. More widespread adoption of EVs across the US is also a factor.

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New, Updated Carbon Majors Dataset Holds Promise for Researchers, Litigators

Union of Concerned Scientists

While these data have been available since 2014 from the Climate Accountability Institute, the most recent update of this dataset is now easily accessible and explorable on a new platform hosted by InfluenceMap.

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

Though manufacturers largely didn’t adopt the necessary emissions control technology to meet the NO X requirement until 2010, the 2007 standard did require new technologies to be deployed, at an increased upfront cost. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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2022 updates to the temperature records

Real Climate

El Niño events enhance global warming (as in 1998, 2010, 2016 etc.) It’s well known (among readers here, I assume), that ENSO influences the interannual variability of the climate system and the annual mean temperatures. and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) impart a slight cooling. GISTEMP anomalies (w.r.t.

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